Heat (1995), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Crooks in Clover (1963), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Victoria (2015), Gun Crazy (1950), Hell or High Water (2016), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Bank Robbery movies.
Storyline: A mysterious and mythical motorcycle racer, Luke, (Ryan Gosling) drives out of a traveling carnival globe of death and whizzes through the backstreets of Schenectady, New York, desperately trying to connect with a former lover, Romina, (Eva Mendes) who recently and secretly gave birth to the stunt rider's son. In an attempt to provide for his new family, Luke quits the carnival life and commits a series of bank robberies aided by his superior riding ability. The stakes rise as Luke is put on a collision course with an ambitious police officer, Avery Cross, (Bradley Cooper) looking to quickly move up the ranks in a police department riddled with corruption. The sweeping drama unfolds over fifteen years as the sins of the past haunt the present days lives of two high school boys wrestling with the legacy they've inherited. The only refuge is found in the place beyond the pines.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, family, father-son relationship, motorcycle, bank robbery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell. It describes the early childhood and youth of Virgil, his failure at a musical career, and his obsession with bank robberies. The film uses a voice over narrative and interviews with his family, friends and acquaintances.
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, mockumentary, black comedy, heist, prison, prison break ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1877, Frank (John Pearce) and Jesse James (Robert Duvall) are expecting to receive amnesty from the state of Missouri for all their previous crimes. But the railroad owners whom the brothers have repeatedly robbed intervene, stopping the amnesty and sending the Pinkertons to kill the gang. Meanwhile, Frank and Jesse team up with Cole Younger (Cliff Robertson) and his gang, and plot to rob the biggest bank west of the Mississippi, located in Northfield, Minn.
Plot Keywords: western, historical drama, crime, action, adventure, gunfight, outlaw ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Joe, Al, and Willie are three old men who have resigned themselves to dying. One night, Joe hatches a scheme to put a bit of excitement back into their lives: robbing a bank.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: comedy, heist, elderly, crime, friendship, black comedy, social injustice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, granddaughter of William Randolph Heart, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), who first demanded a prisoner swap for Hearst, then, as it failed, demanded $6 million worth of food for the poor of the Bay Area.—Ulf Kjell Gür
Plot Keywords: documentary, kidnapping, bank robbery, 1970s, terrorism, true crime, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Thom, a genius engineering graduate is interested in the Bank of Spain's safe. The Bank building is more than 100 years old, with no building blueprints available and a security system that includes an underground river that will flood the safe room if their walls are breached. As soon as Thom learns that a legendary lost treasure is going to be held at the bank's safe for just 10 days, he devises, together with charismatic art dealer Walter "Cunningham" a detailed plan to breaking in. They will only have 105 minutes to do so, while the Bank's staff will be distracted, watching the 2010 Football World Cup final match , played by Spain's national football team and broadcast on a giant screen, coincidentally placed just in front of the Bank of Spain building.
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, mystery, heist, team, tension ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! In JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, drama, thriller, black comedy, autobiographical, french ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts aside their mutual suspicions to repeat the crime after they are unable to find the loot from the original heist, hidden behind a school chalkboard. The hardened artilleryman and his flippant, irresponsible young sidekick are the two wild cards in the deck of jokers.
Plot Keywords: crime, action, adventure, comedy, road movie, heist, buddy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Having conquered the Asian underworld, Don (Shah Rukh Khan) now has his sights set on European domination. In his way are the bosses of the existing European underworld and all law enforcement agencies. The action shifts from Kuala Lumpur to Berlin as Don must avoid assassination or arrest, whichever comes first, in order for his plan to succeed.
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, mystery, bollywood, sequel, heist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: crime, gangster, biography, action, violence, historical, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A gritty L.A crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan an impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, thriller, heist, police, los angeles, bank robbery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The difficult 1930s is a time of robbers who knock over banks and other rich targets with alarming frequency. Of them, none is more notorious than John Dillinger, whose gang plies its trade with cunning efficiency against big businesses while leaving ordinary citizens alone. As Dillinger becomes a folk hero, FBI head J. Edger Hoover is determined to stop his ilk by assigning ace agent Melvin Purvis to hunt down Dillinger. As Purvis struggles with the manhunt's realities, Dillinger himself faces an ominous future with the loss of friends, dwindling options and a changing world of organized crime with no room for him.
Plot Keywords: crime, action, biography, history, thriller, gunfight, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An admired high school hockey player with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girlfriend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the ...
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, mystery, bank robbery, amnesia, psychological trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A number of otherwise insignificant small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob the local bank. A father looking for pride in his son's eyes, a timid clerk who is a peeping tom by night, a man striving to rewin his wife's love, an Amish farmer faced with viciousness, and a proper older woman turned thief, all find themselves entangled with the bank robbers as a peaceful weekend turns violent.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: crime, film noir, thriller, heist, suspense, violence, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four Black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail. As the women add to the loot, their tastes and interests begin to change and their suspicions of each other increase on the way to a climactic robbery.
Plot Keywords: crime, action, drama, heist, female-led, friendship, betrayal ...
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